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forms by its large, especially broad, head. Our numerous series of examples show 

 scarcely any difference in colours or markings from Mexico to Panama. The fore 

 tibise are bidentate ; the mesosternum is prominent and slightly porrect between the 

 coxae. 



Var. 1 is of precisely the same form as the Mexican type, but Var. 2 is more robust, 

 convex, and dilated behind, and may prove to be a distinct species. 



It varies in size from 17 to 24 millim. The smallest are from Jalapa, the largest 

 from Guatemala. 



70. Anomala valida. 



Anomala valida, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 264 \ 



Anomala bimaculata, Blanch. Cat. Coll. Ent. i. p. 188 (sec. coll. Salle) 2 . 



Eab. Mexico, Playa Vicente (Salle), Jalapa (Edge) ; Nicaeagua, Chontales (Belt, 

 Janson); Costa Rica, Volcan de Irazu (Rogers); Panama (MacLeannan). — South 

 America 2 , Colombia \ Venezuela (coll. Bates). 



In this species the punctures of the sutural stria (which is only impressed towards 

 the apex) collect in oblong blue-black fovea?, similar to the geminated lines of foveas on 

 the disc of the elytra. In many examples there is a dusky spot exactly in the middle 

 of each elytron. 



71. Anomala pupillata. 



Anomala pupillata, Burm. Handb. der Ent. iv. 1, p. 263 \ 



Hah. Mexico, Cosamaloapam (Salle) ; Guatemala 1 , Panzos, Volcan de Atitlan, 

 Paraiso (Champion). 



I am not sure of the identification of this species, as none of our examples are so 

 small as 6 lines (about 14 millim.), the size given by Burmeister. Our Guatemala 

 specimens measure from 19 to 24 millim. In all other respects they agree with 

 Burmeister's description. In the Salle collection A. pupillata is identified with a 

 spotted var. of A. sticticoptera, Blanch. In colour and markings the resemblance is 

 complete, but the form of the mesosternum, " ein wenig vorgezogen," is quite different 

 from that of A. sticticoptera. I doubt, however, whether A. pupillata is specifically 

 different from A. valida. 



72. Anomala ? 



Hab. Nicaragua, Chontales (Belt). 



A single example of a doubtful species allied to A. cupricollis. 



73. Anomala megalia. (Tab. XIII. fig. 9.) 



Magna, elongato-ovata, toto fulvo-testacea, antice asneo-tincta, subtus fusco-asnea, nitida; clypeo lato sub- 



